2024 Best Colleges for Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services

SUMMARY

Studying Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services is not only a valuable choice, but typically an obligatory first step for pupils choosing to enter a career as a veterinary assistant, an animal trainer, or a college agriculture science professor. Interestingly, agricultural and domestic animal services is a ​unique major being the 310th most popular degree. Last year alone, there were 338 agricultural and domestic animal services diplomas received. In-state tuition for agricultural and domestic animal services at private colleges is, on average, 3.5 times more pricey than their public rivals.

With just 32 institutions offering agricultural and domestic animal services there could be a more finite list of the institutions which will have a degree program for you. If you're looking to surround yourself with other agricultural and domestic animal services students, consider looking at schools in Colorado which have more undergraduates admitted to agricultural and domestic animal services than any other state. More generally, the top region to pursue agricultural and domestic animal services is in the Rocky Mountains region with Colorado State University-Fort Collins, Rocky Mountain College, and The University of Montana-Western best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection of the best conference to study agricultural and domestic animal services is the Mountain West Conference with Colorado State University-Fort Collins representing the conference. From our comprehensive list on the best colleges, our choice for the best university for agricultural and domestic animal services is Colorado State University-Fort Collins.

The 'best' school does not mean it is the best school for you. There might be many more perspectives to weigh when choosing school. Things such as campus amenities, transportation services, and food could definitely impact your choice on which college to attend. At Authority, we examined the pros and cons for you. If, as an example, you want to know which agricultural and domestic animal services university has the top campus, the winner is Colorado State University-Fort Collins. If you are very interested in which university boasts the best campus, then we have a whole page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through professor reviews, government databases, student reviews, and more so we can compare each major in an unbiased and informative way. You can explore our well researched list for the universities with the best student life&nbsphere and from that list, our choice for the college with the best student life for agricultural and domestic animal services is Savannah College of Art and Design. Curious why? Keep scrolling to learn more about Authority's top recommendations. Many of our conclusions might shock you.

If expense is a significant influence in your decisions, you might consider avoiding Savannah College of Art and Design. Savannah College of Art and Design&nbspappears to be our most expensive school for agricultural and domestic animal services, at least for out of state attendance. That being said, we have a page for the most expensive&nbspuniversities that might put the cost at Savannah College of Art and Design&nbspinto perspective. For more context, you could be interested to know that agricultural and domestic animal services is the 234th most expensive major in the nation, with an average bill of $28,600. To zoom out a little, the most costly state for agricultural and domestic animal services in the country is Georgia with expenses at the main institution, Savannah College of Art and Design, of $37,575. Even more broadly, the most costly region of the U.S. for agricultural and domestic animal services is the Mid East region which is best demonstrated with Centenary University with a cost of $32,572, Houghton College with a cost of $32,930, and Saint Francis University with a cost of $36,970.

Our cheapest region for agricultural and domestic animal services is the Southwest region which is represented by West Texas A & M University with a cost of $6,960. More optimistically, the most affordable college for agricultural and domestic animal services is West Texas A & M University. Our full list of the most affordable colleges can be found here.

In-state students can expect to pay about $8,900 for a degree in agricultural and domestic animal services. That price swells dramatically to a median of $17,800 for an out-of-state public-school student. On that note, our pick for the university representing the best value for agricultural and domestic animal services: Colorado State University-Fort Collins. On this page you will see our comprehensive list on the universities we believe to be the best value&nbspoverall. Do know, this discussion is predicated on being an out-of-state student. The value proposition changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, but we do not know in which states any one student has residency.

Earnings for agricultural and domestic animal services majors can differ, but within two years finishing the degree graduates will typically earn in the neighborhood of $54,200. There can be much variation in earnings; top earners can bring in up to $120,500. Even straight out of school, the minimum earning opportunities within the agricultural and domestic animal services field earn $24,000, which isn't that bad. The highest earning graduates for agricultural and domestic animal services graduated from Saint Francis University&nbspand if you are looking for schools with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The all-around diversity of agricultural and domestic animal services falls subpar, ranking in only the 1st percentile of all programs. The school with the highest composite diversity for agricultural and domestic animal services is Johnson & Wales University-Providence&nbspand here you can find our comprehensive list for the schools which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of the Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services major ranks only within the 69th percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is even less in the 2nd percentile. White collegians compose the largest proportion at 88% of students studying agricultural and domestic animal services. Additionally, 93% of students pursuing an agricultural and domestic animal services major are women.

The median ranking of agricultural and domestic animal services' professors is 3.8 stars, a rating which is 5% below the average for every major; this is a subpar score. If you want the most popular agricultural and domestic animal services professor in the nation, take a look at Elizabeth Kirk at University of Washington-Seattle Campus. This may be shocking, but the top ranked agricultural and domestic animal services instructors from student rankings come from University of Washington-Seattle Campus. As we consider data beyond basic rankings it becomes clear that the school possessing the overall best professors for agricultural and domestic animal services is Colorado State University-Fort Collins. You can find more detail on our evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, along with many of the finest professors nationwide.

Finally, the hardest college to get into for agricultural and domestic animal services is Stephens College. While we think of this list more as a novelty, we do have a comprehensive page of the hardest colleges to get into. With that said, we do hope you understand that considering higher education through a lens mainly informed by superlatives might cause issues. We hope you look at some of our other pages on individual universities and explore a few of our background pages on useful details to look out for as your college search develops.